52,404 overdose deaths in US in 2016:​"I don't think we've ever seen anything ​like this. Certainly not in modern times." – Robert Anderson, CDC

Johns Hopkins - Lancet Commissionfinds the war on drugs undercuts public health, increasing risk of death and exacerbating ongoing health crises around the globe: ​"According to a report released by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Lancet, the war on drugs and zero-tolerance policies have undercut public health across the globe and have directly contributed to many of today’s most urgent public health crises, while doing little to affect drug markets or drug use."